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I think that's the Best TL;DR; of the ruling I've found so far.

#1 was found by the court almost 80 years ago in Loving vs Virginia[1]. What the court found was that this applied to the rights of same sex couples.

The court has been building the legal framework for this for about a decade. They found that Civil Unions must not be legally different from Marriage. From there it was a simple matter of ruling that existing civil rights rulings did in fact apply to LGBT folks.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia



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